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The 1950 NASCAR Grand National season was the second season of professional stock car racing in the United States. Beginning at the Daytona Beach Road Course on February 5, 1950, the season included 19 races. The season concluded at Occoneechee Speedway on October 29.
On December 14, 1947, France began talks at the Ebony Bar at the Streamline Hotel at Daytona Beach, Florida, that ended with the formation of NASCAR on February 21, 1948. The Daytona Beach and Road Course hosted the premiere event of the fledgling series until Darlington Speedway was completed in 1950. Cars racing down A1A at the 1956 race Cars ...
Daytona Beach and Road Course: 4.170-mile (6.711 km) mixed road course Daytona Beach, Florida: 1949–1958 Half the course was beach sand, other half was State Road A1A. Closed after Daytona was built. Last race was a Motorcycle race in 1960. Beach and highway still publicly accessible. Daytona Road Course: 3.570 mile road course Daytona Beach ...
1950. Due to declining health relating to his leg injury, Byron started racing less and less. [64] Byron raced just four of the nineteen races of the 1950 NASCAR Grand National season. [52] On February 5, Byron finished second in the first race of the season at the Daytona Beach Road Course after battling with winner Harold Kite for most of the ...
Everett "Cotton" Owens (May 21, 1924 – June 7, 2012) was a NASCAR driver. For five straight years (1957–61), Owens captured at least one Grand National Series win. Owens was known as the "King of the Modifieds" for his successes in modified stock car racing in the 1950s.
His first time driving the Hornet in the February 1951 Daytona Beach and Road Course resulted in a first-place finish. [8] Teague nicknamed his Hudson Hornet the "Fabulous Hudson Hornet" and had that name painted on the sides of the car. [8] Teague went on to win five of the fifteen NASCAR Grand National races in 1951. [8]
Daytona Beach and Road Course: Race Modified Division Al Briggs (USA) [44] [note 11] February 26, 1955 125-mile race: Daytona Beach and Road Course: Race Modified Division Otis Eaton (USA) [46] [note 12] May 14, 1955 Fonda Speedway: Consolation race Sportsman Division Jimmy Knowlan (USA) [48] September 9, 1955 35-lap race Islip Speedway ...
Marshall Pleasant Teague [1] (February 22, 1921 – February 11, 1959) was an American race car driver nicknamed by NASCAR fans as the "King of the Beach" for his performances at the Daytona Beach Road Course. He walked into fellow Daytona Beach resident Smokey Yunick's "Best Damned Garage in Town", and launched Yunick's NASCAR mechanic career.